Re: Problems with tg3 driver in 2.6 kernel

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Jun 18, 2007, at 10:06 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:

I have a dual Opteron system with a Broadcom Tigon 3 NIC.  It's running Debian Sarge 3.1.  When I boot the 2.4.27-2-386 kernel, everything works. When I boot the 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel, the NIC is unable to talk to the network.  The driver loads without throwing any errors, but no packets are ever sent or received.

Well, it never fails.  Last week I spent most of a day tinkering with this without figuring it out, but as soon as I did a mailing list post, I managed to figure out what I was doing wrong. ;)

The machine has two NICs.  Under 2.4.27, the one on the left is eth0, and the one on the right is eth1.  Under 2.6.18, the order is reversed.  So I had the cable plugged into the wrong port all along.

David Brodbeck

Information Technology Specialist 3

Computational Linguistics

University of Washington